2117. GEFFS, Mary L. Under Ten Flags: A History of Weld County,
Colorado. Greeley: [McVey Printery], 1938. 318 pp., plans, maps. 8vo,
original terracotta cloth lettered in black. Very fine.First edition. Herd 889. Wilcox, p. 49. Wynar 1450.
Local history with statistics on the cattle trade in the county. $50.00

2118. GEHLBACH, Frederick R. Mountain Islands and Desert Seas:
A Natural History of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, [1981]. xvi, 298 pp., color photographic plates,
maps, illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in very good price-clipped
d.j. Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate.First edition. Extensive information on cattle ranching,
including a discussion of overgrazing in this mostly arid and fragile region.
$25.00

2119. GENTRY, Diane Koos. Enduring Women. College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, [1988]. xvii [1] 244 [1] pp., photographic
illustrations. Oblong 8vo, original brown wrappers with photographic illustrations.
Some wear, but generally very good, with gift inscription on front free endpaper,
otherwise fine. Signed by author.First edition. Among the women profiled and photographed
is Harriet Johnson, who left her job as an Ivy League professor to marry a cowboy
and become a rancher in Montana. $15.00

2120. GEORGE, Floy Watters. History of Webster County, 1855
to 1955. [Springfield, Missouri: Roberts & Sutter, Printers, 1955].
264 pp., photographic text illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Text
browned due to quality of paper, otherwise fine.First edition. The chapter entitled “Agriculture—Yesterday
and Today” discusses the role of cattle ranching through the years in this
Missouri county. $50.00

2123. GIBBONS, J. J. In the San Juan. Chicago: Press of
Calumet Book & Engraving Co., [1898]. 194 pp., photographic plates lettered
and with seal of Colorado in silver. 12mo, original orange cloth. Very good
copy with some outer wear and darkening at top edges.First edition.Guns 824: “Scarce. Also
published under the title ‘Notes of a Missionary Priest in the Rocky Mountains,’ New
York, by the Christian Press Association Publishing Co., 1898.” Wilcox,
p. 49. Wynar 8963. Though primarily an account of pioneer life and mining camps,
there is a sketch about a cowboy and a bronco (pp. 28-31). $60.00

2124. GIBBS, Josiah. Kawich’s Gold Mine: An Historical
Narrative of Mining in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and of Love and Adventure
among the Polygamous Mormons of Southern Utah. Salt Lake City: Century
Printing Company, 1913. 228 pp., photographic text illustrations (full-page),
map. 8vo, original red printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers moderately worn
and with a few small voids on spine and along upper joint, interior fine.First edition. Flake 3551: “Fiction with a Mormon
setting.” Includes in episode 6 (“Unfortunately Cattle Deal”)
the description of the hazardous delivery of a herd of a thousand cows to St.
George. $100.00

2125. GIBBS, Josiah F. Lights and Shadows of Mormonism.
Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co., [1909]. 535 pp., frontispiece
portrait, photographic text illustrations, portraits, maps. 8vo, original dark
blue cloth. Light shelf wear, especially to spinal extremities, overall fine.First edition. Flake 3552. Chapter 21 is a discussion
of early settlement at Salt Lake City, including the role of early cattle and
sheep ranching in assuring the colony’s survival. In general the work is
an anti-Mormon political and religious indictment. $50.00

2126. GIBBS, Josiah F. The Mountain Meadows Massacre...Illustrated
by Nine Full-Page and Five Half-Page Engravings from Photographs Taken on
the Ground. Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co., 1910. 59
pp., illustrations, map. 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers, stapled.
Marginal browning to wraps and title, otherwise fine, with Shepard Book Company
contemporary purple ink stamp on lower wrap.
Second and best edition, with correction regarding Isaac Laney
on title verso: “The above explanation has been given for purpose of disarming
Mormon critics who are ever alert to even the slightest discrepancies that may
find their way into the writings of those who presume to criticize the conduct
and motives of the Mormon leaders.” Flake 3354. Guns 825: “Scarce.”
It is fairly obvious in which direction the author is heading
regarding the lamentable Mountain Meadows Massacre on the Hamblin, Holt, and
Burgess ranches when early on, he states: “With malice toward none, least
of all toward the misguided assassins, and in a spirit of even-handed justice,
the attempt will be made to assemble the fragments of causation and history and
join them together in a consecutive narrative.” Like some later writers
(e.g., David L. Bigler in Forgotten Kingdom), the author contends that
part of the motivation for the first attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train
seems to have been an effort to steal their cattle (the overland party was one
of the wealthiest trains to come through Utah territory). An aside relating to
the Massacre in general: “Nine cowhands hired to drive cattle also were
murdered, along with at least 35 other unknown victims. In all, 120 people, mostly
women and children, were slain” (Salt Lake Tribune, March 14,
2000, p. A-4). $150.00

2127. GIBSON, A[rrell] M[organ]. The Life and Death of Colonel
Albert Jennings Fountain. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1965].
xi [1] 301 [7] pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original navy cloth. Very fine
in slightly chipped d.j. (illustrated by Joe Beeler). Carl Hertzog’s
copy with his bookplate.First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Beeler
40). Guns 826: “A well-written and long-needed book about one of
the leading characters in New Mexico. It contains much on the lawlessness of
that state and tells about Oliver Lee, Jim Gilliland, Pat Garrett, and others,
with a mention of Billy the Kid.” Though at its core this volume is about
outlaws, ranching is a constant backdrop to the story, and there is content on
the Lincoln County War. $45.00

2128. GIBSON, Arrell Morgan (ed.). Ranching in the West: Journal
of the West 14:3, July 1975. viii, 160 pp., illustration by H. Jordan
Rollins on p. 1, ads. 8vo, original grey-and-white printed wrappers. Light
wear and foxing, otherwise fine. Ink signature of Donald D. Brand on upper
wrapper; laid in are two letters between Brand and Terry G. Jordan discussing
the latter’s article in this issue of the journal.First printing. This issue of the Journal includes “Texan
Influence in Nineteenth-Century Arizona Cattle Ranching” by Terry Jordan; “Western
Livestock Policy during the 1950s” by Edward L. and Frederick Shapsmeier;
and “Cattlemen’s Association in New Mexico Territory.” $50.00

2129. GIBSON, George Rutledge. Journal of a Soldier under
Kearny and Doniphan, 1846-1847.... Edited by Ralph Bieber. Glendale:
The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1935. 371 pp., frontispiece portrait, plates,
foldout map. 8vo, original maroon cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Spine slightly
faded, otherwise fine. Ink ownership signature on title (C. W. & N. M.
Wiegel).First edition. Southwest Historical Series 3. Clark & Brunet
19:III. Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 180.
Garrett, Mexican-American War, p. 216. Howes S791. Rittenhouse 240: “In
1846 [Gibson] enlisted in the Army of the West under Kearny and marched over
the SFT. In Santa Fe he was editor of the Santa Fe Republican in 1847
and returned east over the Trail in 1848. The length of his journal and [editor]
Bieber’s careful notes make this a valuable work.” Saunders 2918.
Includes material on ranchos along the route, fandango in
El Paso, Apache, Comanche, Pawnee, and Ute depredations against stock, procuring
beef cattle to replace stolen stock, and general tips for getting around Mexico
in the mid-nineteenth century: “When you arrive at a place in Mexico and
wish anything, by all means call on the alcalde first, tell him your wants, give
him a dollar or two, and if to be had, he will procure it” (p. 330). $100.00

Merrill Aristocrat

2130. GIBSON, J. W. (Watt). Recollections of a Pioneer. [St.
Joseph, Missouri: Nelson-Hanne Printing, 1912]. 216 pp., frontispiece portrait.
8vo, original dark red cloth lettered in black on spine and upper cover. Binding
slightly faded along edges, interior very fine. Difficult to find in collector’s
condition.First edition. Anderson 1686:487. Braislin 824. Loring
Campbell. Cowan, p. 235. Dobie, p. 103: “Like many another book concerned
only incidentally with range life, this contains essential information on the
subject. Here it is trailing cattle from Missouri to California in the 1840s
and 1850s.” Dykes, Collecting Range Life Literature, p. 15. Eberstadt, Modern
Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 181. Flake 3558. Graff 1546. Herd 891: “Scarce....
Chapters on driving cattle across the plains.” Howes G154.
Kurutz, California Gold Rush 272: “Gibson had
the distinction of making three overland trips, the first in 1849. The author
set out from Buchanan County, Missouri, with brothers William and James. They
followed the California Trail and crossed the Sierra via Carson Pass. The brothers
first mined for gold on Weaver Creek in August. Gibson then wandered from Sacramento
to Shasta City before joining up with fellow Missourians at Salmon Falls. With
his brothers, he started ranching but returned overland to home to bring cattle
back to California. In May 1850, Gibson led 550 head back to the ranch. The rancher
made two more trips in 1853 and 1854. According to Dale Morgan, ‘His original
return trip was one of the rare West to East trips that year.’” Merrill, Aristocrats
of the Cow Country, p. 18. Mattes, Platte River Road Narratives 455.
Mintz, The Trail 176: “Gibson made his first of three overland trips
in 1849 and here relates experiences and adventures in the land of gold mining.
He returned to Missouri in 1851, and then returned to California in 1852, driving
cattle along the way. Gibson made another cattle driving trip in 1854.... Quite
an adventurer and quite engaging reading.” Norris 1220. Rader 1578. Smith
3539.
Gardiner (In Pursuit of the Golden Dream) discusses
this book on p. xxxiv. Gibson includes several chapters on his participation
in the Civil War, in both Missouri and Arkansas, in Musser’s 8th and 9th
Missouri Infantry. In 1861 he joined Elijah Gates’ company just after the
Battle of Wilson’s Creek, went on to fight at Lexington and Pea Ridge,
then joined the Confederate army in John B. Clark’s division. One particularly
grim event he relates is how a company of artillery was overrun by a company
of African-Americans who promptly killed the survivors (pp. 154-155). $1,500.00

2132. GIDEON, Samuel E[ward]. (ed.) A Group of Themes on the
Architecture and Culture of Early Texas. Austin: The University of Texas,
n.d. 110 pp. (mimeographed), text illustrations (line drawings of architecture).
4to, original blue paper wrappers, stapled. Very good. Pencil notes indicate
this copy was a gift from J. Frank Dobie to Dudley R. Dobie, and the scattered
manuscript corrections appear to be in the hand of JFD.First edition. This work consists of students’ research
essays prepared for a university course on the evolution of Texas architecture,
with some material of interest for ranching (such as adaptation of the dog-run
style to later ranch houses; see p. 27). Dr. Gideon (1875-1945), also known for
his wonderful paintings, taught at Texas A&M, MIT, and UT after studying
at MIT, Harvard, and the School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau, France (Handbook
of Texas Online: Samuel Edward Gideon). $50.00

2133. GIESE, Henry. Farm Fence Handbook. Chicago: Agricultural
Extension Bureau, Republic Steel Corporation, 1938. 63 [1] pp., text illustrations
(mostly photographic), tables. 4to, original blue pictorial wrappers. Small
abrasion on back wrapper, else very fine.First printing. An in-depth survey of fencing meant
for the use of agricultural college students. One of the illustrations (p. 33)
shows a barbed wire machine in action with a note explaining how it operates.
$25.00

2134. GIESECKE, Walter. Reminiscences and Adventures of Walter
Giesecke As He Told Them to His Children and Grandchildren. N.p., n.d.
(ca. 1925). 60 leaves, typewritten, double-spaced carbon copy. 4to, secured
in stiff green paper covers. Other than occasional mild rust staining from
metal clasps, fine. A few of J. Frank Dobie’s rough pencil notes.
Unpublished, original account by a cowboy-rancher, who was
born on a sheep farm in Washington County, Texas, in 1856 and moved to Burnet
County after the Civil War. He worked mostly at home until 1882, when he “decided
for the ‘cowtrail’” and “hired to Major Zeth Mabry, a
prominent cattle trader and dealer, who sent thousands of cattle ‘up the
trail’ every spring, to help drive a herd of steers to Ogallala, Nebraska.” His
account of this trail drive is informative and exciting. From Ogallala he accepted
a job of accompanying a cattle train consisting of ten cars of stock bound for
Chicago. $500.00

2138. GILBEY, Walter. Ponies Past and Present. London:
Vinton & Co., 1900. [8] 112 pp., frontispiece, plates (photographic, some
from engravings or woodcuts). 8vo, original orange cloth with lettering and
illustration of pony and dog in gilt, a.e.g. Binding moderately stained and
worn with some abrading at spine and corners, foxing to first and last few
leaves, overall a very good copy. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Printed
list of “Works by Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart” on lower pastedown.First edition. The emphasis of the work is the possibilities
of breeding, with a history of various breeds and types, including New Forest,
Welsh, Exmoor, Darmoor, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Connemara, Scotland, and Shetland.
In one chapter the author comments extensively on the relative superiority of
the pony to the horse, remarking that ponies have more endurance and need less
care. Gilbey regrets that England must import ponies to meet the demand. Finally,
he points out that ponies are essential for work in mines because horses are
too large. $75.00